Boston, March 8-9: Festival of Greek Music and Dance

FESTIVAL OF GREEK MUSIC AND DANCE
hosted by the Boston Lykeion Ellinidon

Music and Dances of the Aegean Islands, Kythira, Cyprus, Karpathos,and
the Greeks of sourthern Italy.

Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9, 2002
Concert Hall
Boston University School for the Arts,
855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston

Ticket prices
$25 prepaid for each of the concerts ($30 at the door or after March 4)
$20 for each Saturday afternoon seminar with the artists,
$30 for the Dance Party on Saturday night (with virtuoso Nikos Ikonomidis
on violin and his ensemble and the Zografides group from Karpathos).

Friday night's concert performers, the highly acclaimed violinist Nikos
Ikonomidis and his ensemble, are considered some of the best authorities
of traditions from the Greek islands. The island groups that will be
represented in the 2-night program are those of the Northeastern Aegean
(Thassos, Chios, Limnos, Lesvos, Ikaria, Samos etc), Dodecanese (Rhodes,
Kalymnos, Tilos, Symi, Kos etc.), Cyclades (Paros, Amorgos, Naxos,
Serifos etc.), and the islands of Kythira, Karpathos, and of Cyprus. An
array of traditional instruments will be featured from those areas.

Performing Saturday night will be "the Cypriot Voice" MichalisTterlikkas
and his group from Cyprus,and lyraris (Karpathian lyra player) and singer
Michalis Zografides of Olymbos,Karpathos, the most important follower and
representative of the musical tradition of his homeland. A special treat
at Saturday's concert will be the Ghetonia ensemble, bringing to us the
musical traditions of the Greeks of southern Italy! It promises to be a
weekend full of lively and lyrical tunes as well as dances performed by
the Lykeion Ellinidon of Boston...We hope to see you there!